May 2012
2 posts
April 2012
3 posts
Ben Brown: Dear Internet, I just fixed a broken... →
benbrown:
Dear Internet,
I just fixed a broken script that was hiding half of the Über.nu archives from view. Now, the full 1,000 article archive is available to peruse as if it was 2002 again. Über published almost daily from 2000 to 2005, before most people knew that the internet was designed to waste time.
March 2012
9 posts
Cheeseburger’s cover of Alice Cooper’s...
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Regular Show has 1 Million Fans! OOOOOOOHHHHHHH!!! Regular Show’s creator JG Quintel and Cartoon Network love all 1 Million of you so much, we had Mordecai, Rigby, and the rest of the park guys make this Party Tonight music video that’s so awesome, it can only be described with three letters: R-A-D. You can only see it here, so thanks for being a Regular Show fan!!
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tumbling sippey: competing v. fulfilling... →
sippey:
But I don’t think that competition is what’s driving them. Instead, I have a feeling they’re working with Mountain Lion to fulfill user expectations that they’re setting with their mobile platform.
This is the critical part of Apple’s success over the past decade: making things just work.
The experience people had with iPods, and now iPhones, is so vastly different from the...
February 2012
4 posts
“My little pricing experiment with Pixel Pix is over, and the results are pretty...”
– Ben Brown:
I’ve had a similar experience with textagon and decided to make it free as well (and maybe do some in-app purchases for it later.)
Pixel Pix is out!!! →
benbrown:
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE,
Pixel Pix, the coolest pixel art iPhone photography app EVAR has finally hit the app store! And it’s TOTALLY FREE for a limited time. WHAT? FREE? YES! FREE!
Get it now, and be sure to share your photos with us!
“(This is an actual photo of Adam and I creating Consumating. Notice that while I...”
– Ben Brown: Fools Gold
Playing Animal Crossing is what we pros call “managing.”
“I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the...”
– This is the greatest Nicolas Cage quote I’ve ever accidentally discovered (via jennfrank)
January 2012
2 posts
“But at its most basic level, this is not about Kickstarter, and it’s not about...”
– In Case Of Actual Death: Kickstarter, and Being Your Creative Word
December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
6 posts
“It’s a game that really didn’t seem to want me to be playing it, far preferring...”
– Wot I Think: Modern Warfare 3 Single Player | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
“The corporate drive for DRM is motivated by the fear of ebook piracy. But aside...”
– Cutting their own throats - Charlie’s Diary
Publishers insistence on DRM encourages Amazon’s monopoly on ebook reading/sales, which is not in publishers’ (or readers’) long term interests.
Similar thing happened with Apple/iPod/iTunes, which led to less DRM on music...
dakotasmith: man your new version of aim is really chatty about it!
Adam Mathes: is it?
dakotasmith: adammathes is using a new version of AIM that stores conversation history so they can see their chats wherever they're signed into AIM (desktop, mobile, aim.com). If you don't want your messages stored, you can ask adammathes to take the conversation "off the record" or use the new AIM so you can do so yourself. Visit preview.aim.com/.faq for more information.
Adam Mathes: i tried and turned it off
dakotasmith: yes.
Adam Mathes: whoa
dakotasmith: i know!
Adam Mathes: how do i opt out of that?
Adam Mathes: geez
Adam Mathes: lovely
““The current policy of lending plus austerity will lead to social unrest,” Mr....”
– Bernard Connolly, The Rise of a Euro Doomsayer - NYTimes.com
October 2011
4 posts
“Shonen Jump, the popular manga anthology geared to teenage boys, will switch to...”
– Shonen Jump Goes All-Digital in 2012 | GeekDad | Wired.com
$26/year for the most popular Manga in the world, 2 weeks (rather than months or years) behind the Japanese releases. Brilliant.
DC and Marvel have nothing competitive and should. Their product lines are incomprehensible, with tons of...
“HAD JARVIS WRITTEN his book as self-parody—as a cunning attack on the...”
– The Internet Intellectual
“IT IS NOT ALWAYS EASY. Ro has a thing for reality shows involving fashion, I...”
– I know you and Ro watch a lot of television together. How do you decide what to watch? How are your tastes similar and how are they different, and how have they evolved over time? Do you feel like you watch something differently when you are watching it together? • In Case Of Actual Death
“There’s an obvious logic in the naming of Doom and Quake, short violent...”
– Rage review - end of the world | Metro.co.uk
September 2011
6 posts
“It is time to cancel the DAVOS FORUM. The sycophants in the media love to mingle...”
– Notes From Underground: Europe is Scaring The Financial Markets and the World (Obama) « Notes From Underground
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I Love Ben Brown: Software For You! →
benbrown:
Hey dudes,
XOXCO’s very first iPhone app was finally released today. SendTab allows you to send and receive links between your phone and your browser. You can use it to send an article to your phone to read on the go, or send a video from your phone to your browser to view on the big screen. It…
August 2011
5 posts
“Starting with Chrome 13, we’ll have HTTPS pins for most Google properties....”
– ImperialViolet - Public key pinning
This is why Chrome wasn’t effected by the recent Iranian SSL shenanigans.
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naming blogs is easy: online dating is a diabolic... →
Culturally I see little value in stories like this, ones that have zero self-examination and that pose as Real Talk while painting the writer as an innocent lamb who just has standards, what’s wrong with having standards when you’re trying to be a woman getting a paycheck from a site for dudes find love? Even though true love requires things like self-examination and a willingness to deal with...
July 2011
5 posts
“Facebook was never my thing, and Google+ filled with the 300 or so people I...”
– notes on “closing g+”
Adam Mathes: i mean you realize being an adult isn't all just buying nintendo games, right
Adam Mathes: because that's what i thought it was
dakotasmith: yeah it is not just buying nintendo games
dakotasmith: it's also cookies whenever you want
benbrown:
You can never ask me anything again on tumblr
Because now it’s just the same anonymous spam over and over again and I’m sick of it.
I DON’T WANT TO SEE WHOEVER YOU ARE PRETENDING TO BE NAKED PLEASE JUST KEEP YOUR CLOTHES ON.
I’m also getting @spammed on Twitter regularly now, in addition to the spam follower crap that creeps through (the emails seem to not show up as often, but they still show up as followers.)
I...
“There is no institutional structure, no publisher, no one between the artist and...”
– Rafaël Rozendaal Official Website - why the internet is a good place for art
June 2011
9 posts
http://scripting.com/stories/2011/06/29/pagesMistak... →
But if you were to, by luck, find such a person — if you hired them, then #1 kicks in. Because the guy who can turn it around isn’t good at fighting internal BigCo political battles. He or she has no patience for it, and it’s not what they do well. It’s very easy for the Gundotra’s or Horowitz’s (who are the best at BigCo politics) to push them aside as...